Ilan Stavans
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El Iluminado: A Mystery of Santa Fe
$24.95 Add to cartIn this entertaining, thought-provoking detective graphic novel set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a fictional Ilan Stavans seeks to solve a murder and locate a lost manuscript by a prominent 16th-century C… [more below]
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369189
- Language: English
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Jorge Luis Borges: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) is one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. His short stories, poems, essays, and translations explore Argentine mythology, mysticism, phil… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0197761380
- Language: English
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Latino USA: A Cartoon History
$22.99 Add to cartAn irreverent and kaleidoscopic cartoon history of Latino life, culture, and politics, now revised and updated for its twenty-fifth anniversary
In Latino USA, Latin American and Latino scholar Ilan S- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 154160556X
- Language: English
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The Secret Recipe
$18.99 Add to cart“Una merenda azeremos,” Abuela says to her grandson. “But I don’t understand,” says the boy. “It means ‘we will cook together’ in our secret language,” says Abuela. That evening, Mam? explains that th
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1728486432
- Language: English
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Sabor Jud?o: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook
$40.00 Add to cartSabor Judio celebrates the delicious fusion of two culinary traditions, Jewish and Mexican. Written with joy and verve, Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle’s lavishly illustrated cookbook demonstrates how… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1469682923
- Language: English
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The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America
$28.00 Add to cart2020 Natan Notable BookWinner, 2020 Latino Book Awards Best Travel Book
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countrie… [more below]- Series: Pitt Latin American
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 082296631X
- Language: English
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
$29.99 Add to cartIs it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how ha
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1632062623
- Language: English
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Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries.
In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190076976
- Language: English
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
$24.00 Add to cartIs it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how ha
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1632062267
- Language: English
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Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language
$16.99 Add to cartWith the release of the census figures in 2000, Latino America wasanointed the future driving force of American culture. The emergence of Spanglish as a form of communication is one of the more influe
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: August 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0060087765
- Language: English
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Popol Vuh: A Retelling
$24.00 Add to cartAn inspired and urgent prose retelling of the Maya myth of creation by acclaimed Latin American author and scholar Ilan Stavans, gorgeously illustrated by Salvadoran folk artist Gabriela Larios and in
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 10, 2020
- ISBN10: 1632062402
- Language: English
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The People’s Tongue: Americans and the English Language
$35.00 Add to cartA riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and m
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1632062658
- Language: English
